Bush Admin. suppressing CIA 911 report. Notify all media!

[Windy]

The american public need to see this report before the election! Write/email media, call your congressmen/senators. See if grass roots pressure can make a difference as it did with the PDB of August 2001.

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Filed under: General— site admin @ 3:47 pm
This from the (registration-restricted) L.A. Times‘ Robert Sheer – a rare above the fold commentary piece because it has news material and hasn’t been cited elsewhere.

It is shocking: The Bush administration is suppressing a CIA report on 9/11 until after the election, and this one names names. Although the report by the inspector general’s office of the CIA was completed in June, it has not been made available to the congressional intelligence committees that mandated the study almost two years ago.

“It is infuriating that a report which shows that high-level people were not doing their jobs in a satisfactory manner before 9/11 is being suppressed,” an intelligence official who has read the report told me, adding that “the report is potentially very embarrassing for the administration, because it makes it look like they weren’t interested in terrorism before 9/11, or in holding people in the government responsible afterward.”

When I asked about the report, Rep. Jane Harman (D-Venice), ranking Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee, said she and committee Chairman Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) sent a letter 14 days ago asking for it to be delivered. “We believe that the CIA has been told not to distribute the report,” she said. “We are very concerned.”

According to the intelligence official, who spoke to me on condition of anonymity, release of the report, which represents an exhaustive 17-month investigation by an 11-member team within the agency, has been “stalled.” First by acting CIA Director John McLaughlin and now by Porter J. Goss, the former Republican House member (and chairman of the Intelligence Committee) who recently was appointed CIA chief by President Bush.

The official stressed that the report was more blunt and more specific than the earlier bipartisan reports produced by the Bush-appointed Sept. 11 commission and Congress.

“What all the other reports on 9/11 did not do is point the finger at individuals, and give the how and what of their responsibility. This report does that,” said the intelligence official. “The report found very senior-level officials responsible.”

By law, the only legitimate reason the CIA director has for holding back such a report is national security. Yet neither Goss nor McLaughlin has invoked national security as an explanation for not delivering the report to Congress.

“It surely does not involve issues of national security,” said the intelligence official.

“The agency directorate is basically sitting on the report until after the election,” the official continued. “No previous director of CIA has ever tried to stop the inspector general from releasing a report to the Congress, in this case a report requested by Congress.”

None of this should surprise us given the Bush administration’s great determination since 9/11 to resist any serious investigation into how the security of this nation was so easily breached. In Bush’s much ballyhooed war on terror, ignorance has been bliss.

The president fought against the creation of the Sept. 11 commission, for example, agreeing only after enormous political pressure was applied by a grass-roots movement led by the families of those slain.

And then Bush refused to testify to the commission under oath, or on the record. Instead he deigned only to chat with the commission members, with Vice President Dick Cheney present, in a White House meeting in which commission members were not allowed to take notes. All in all, strange behavior for a man who seeks reelection to the top office in the land based on his handling of the so-called war on terror.

In September, the New York Times reported that several family members met with Goss privately to demand the release of the CIA inspector general’s report. “Three thousand people were killed on 9/11, and no one has been held accountable,” 9/11 widow Kristen Breitweiser told the paper.

The failure to furnish the report to Congress, said Harman, “fuels the perception that no one is being held accountable. It is unacceptable that we don’t have ; it not only disrespects Congress but it disrespects the American people.”

The stonewalling by the Bush administration and the failure of Congress to gain release of the report have, said the intelligence source, “led the management of the CIA to believe it can engage in a cover-up with impunity. Unless the public demands an accounting, the administration and CIA’s leadership will have won and the nation will have lost.”

[Eloriel]

1. Link? Need a link.... n/t

[BeHereNow]

3. Here you go Eloriel

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-scheer19oct19,1,6762967.column?coll=la-util-op-ed
Warning: the content will infuriate you.
BHN

[karlrschneider]

6. Here ya go, El

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-scheer19oct19,1,6540113.column?coll=la-home-utilities

I just went to latimes.com and it's on the top right...

[BeHereNow]

2. I just saw this in the times-

I was at a local diner picking up some food for a friend
and read this editorial. Isn't amazing how they simply thumb
their corporate snoots at every demand for accountability?
It truly is outrageous.
They word for US.
We have a right to know. Everything.
BHN

[pleiku52cab]

4. Media links?

does DU have a posted list with links to the different media outlets (both print and TV)?

[mcg]

8. *** National Media Links ***

Here's a link to a DU with an extensive list of national media links:

<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=816939>

[pleiku52cab]

9. Thanks - just spent the couple hours sending this message

someone should be asking -"why has this report (finished in June) not been released yet, and what are the administrations reasons (if any) for not doing so"

[scottxyz]

11. Great list!

I just have one question about mass-mailing emails.

I have noticed that when I try to mass-mail from Yahoo (by pasting a big list of email addresses in the CC or BCC field), Yahoo´s anti-spam mechanism prevents the message from going out.

Also, when I break a long list of email addresses into a few shorter lists and try to do the mass-mailing in pieces, Yahoo´s anti-spam mechanism also blocks me - saying I have to wait 20 minutes before sending the next email.

My question is - are there any email services which make it easier to mass-mail things?

I have heard that email has less impact than snail mail - but I also think it could be very effective for us to mass-mail some important stories over the next few weeks. The media is making and breaking everything in this country right now. We need to light a fire under their butts.

[Must_B_Free]

5. CNN Just had a 911 victim's husband / Bush supporter

Saying that the Bush administration had cooperated fully with the comission.

Wonder what he'd say to this.

[BeFree]

7. The election hangs in the balance

Ya wanna win the election, hands down?

Let's spread this far and wide. This CIA report must NOT be hid any longer.

This is the first I've heard of this. Where is Bob Graham, Shelby? It's the golden goose laying an election egg right in front of us.

Am I wrong?

[scottxyz]

10. Here´s a link (no registration needed) - plus some media contacts

Here´s the article by Robert Scheer:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/102004V.shtml


And here´s a short list of media contacts you might want to send the article to. (Hopefully they can squeeze this news in somewhere between Mary Cheney updates.)

[e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]

(Some email services, such as yahoo, will block you if you attempt to mass-mail to too many addresses at once, by pasting a long list of addresses into the BCC - blind carbon-copy - field. But this list is short enough that you can mass-mail to it without being blocked.)

[scottxyz]

12. Salon is carrying it now

Bush suppresses damning CIA report on 9/11

Intelligence official says a report that is "very embarrassing for the administration" is being withheld from Congress until after the election.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/scheer/2004/10/20/ciareport/index_np.html

This news should be covered as a ´coverup´ story, until the White House agrees to release the report. Until that time, both the White House and the major media outlets are implicated in the coverup to keep America in the dark about 9/11.

[DeepModem Mom]

13. kick